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A Korea-Japan Nuclear Weapon Free Zone has implications for the US assurance of extended nuclear deterrence to Japan and Korea. At the very least a nuclear weapon free zone would require the United States to commit to not firing nuclear weapons out of the NWFZ. A nuclear weapon free zone in North-East Asia could shift the focus of US deterrence away from nuclear weapons and towards the reliance on the conventional forces already deployed in the region.

Problems of U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence for Japan, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Centre for International Affairs and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, USJP Occasional Paper 88-13, 1988. (Part 1 [1.2 Mb], Part 2 [928 Kb], Part 3 [840 Kb], Part 4[1.3 Mb] – all PDFs are searchable.)